Q&A: Pfizer On Unlocking The Promise Of Real World Evidence
Executive Summary
Real world evidence offers big potential to get medicines to the market, but exploiting the data is not always easy for companies. Pfizer's James Harnett explains the firm's RWE strategy and some of the challenges, like unstructured data and the need for incentives and standards for gathering the data.
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